Rikiwulf was a member of the Wulfing dynasty, mentioned in the Beowulf

Beowulf

Beowulf , but modern scholars agree in naming it after the hero whose life is its subject." of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.It survives in a single...

 saga. In 880

880

Year 880 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.- Religion :* Pope John VIII issues the bull Industriae Tuae, creating an independent ecclesiastical province in Great Moravia with Archbishop Saint Methodius as its head...

 AD, he sailed with his Viking warriors from Ghent

Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...

 up the river Lys

Lys

Lys may refer to any of the following:Places*The Lys or Leie, a river in France and Belgium*Lys , a stream of Aosta Valley in Italy*Lys, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in France...

 in Flanders

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

, and settled in succession Rikiwulfinga-haim near Tielt

Tielt

Tielt is a Belgian municipality in the province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Tielt proper and the towns of Aarsele, Kanegem, and Schuiferskapelle.-History:Some traces of Gallo-Roman occupation have been found in this area...

 , Rekkem near Menin, and Richebourg

Richebourg

-Places:Richebourg is the name of several communes in France:* Richebourg, Haute-Marne, in the Haute-Marne department* Richebourg, Pas-de-Calais, in the Pas-de-Calais department* Richebourg, Yvelines, in the Yvelines department...

, Reclinghem

Reclinghem

Reclinghem is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. It was settled by the Viking Rikiwulf in the 9th century, who probably also settled nearby Richebourg and Rijkeghem in present Tielt, Belgium.-Geography:Reclinghem lies about 12 miles south of...

, Racquinghem

Racquinghem

Racquinghem is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.-Geography:A large village some 6 miles southeast of Saint-Omer, on the N43 road, located on the banks of the Noeufossé canal, the border between the department of Nord and the Pas de Calais.The...

 and Erquinghem-Lys

Erquinghem-Lys

-See also:*Communes of the Nord departmentErquinghem is one of a series of villages on the river Lys established by the Viking Rikiwulf in 880 AD at the time of the invasion led by Godfrid, Duke of Frisia: Racquinghem, Reclinghem, Rekkem and Rijkegem .-References:*...

 in present Artois

Artois

Artois is a former province of northern France. Its territory has an area of around 4000 km² and a population of about one million. Its principal cities are Arras , Saint-Omer, Lens and Béthune.-Location:...

, France.
He was possibly related to Godfrid, Duke of Frisia who led the Viking raid on Ghent in 880, or his predecessor Rorik of Dorestad who in 860 had received from King Lothar I all the lands north of the river Maas

Maas

Maas is the name, in English borrowed from the Dutch language, of a river that is also named Meuse , in English borrowed from French language. The practical use in English may be influenced by the context at a lower or upper stream location....

 in Friesland

Friesland

Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the ancient region of Frisia.Until the end of 1996, the province bore Friesland as its official name. In 1997 this Dutch name lost its official status to the Frisian Fryslân...

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